Curtain-fixture



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHANDLER FISHER, OF MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be itknown that I, CHANDLER FISHER, of Milton, inthe county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Curtain-Fixture, of which the fcl lowing is a full, clear, and eXact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is an elevation of a curtain with my improvement attached; Fig. 2, a. detached view of th-e parts carried by the brackets to be referred to hereafter.

In the attempt to dispense with balance weights in the hanging of window curtains, a pressure has been put upon the curtain rod Y by a spring that bore upon one end of it and produced suflicient friction to hold the curtain in place, but it was found if the spring were sufficiently strong to balance the curtain, when nearly unrolled that the latter was not easily raised or lowered and balance weights were consequently used in connec tion with these friction springs, whereby a much smaller amount of friction was found to answer the purpose. t

To remedy this necessity for balance weights, and to hold the curtain without them in any required position at the same time that it may be easily raised or lowered, is the object of my present invention which consists in producing friction upon the curtain rod by means of a spring, the pressure of whichisrelieved when the curtain is to 26,980, dated January 31, 1860.

be raised as will be now more fully described.

The curtain rod runs at one end in the bracket A in the ordinary manner at the opposite end, which carries the spool B, the gudgeon of the rod runs in a depression a, in a spring z, attached to the bracket C. This spring is so arranged that when the curtain is left at rest the spool B, is caused by the springe to bear against a metallic strip yf, projecting from the bracket; against -f the friction thus produced the 4curtain is easily lowered by dra-wing down the tassel D; Tc raise the curtain the tassel F is drawn down the spring e yielding sufiiciently to relieve the friction between the specified.

CHANDLER FISHER. Vitnesses SAML. CREASER, I). E. TESGHEMAGHER. 

